linux/drivers/Kconfig, branch v2.6.39-rc2

drivers: hwspinlock: add framework

2011-02-17T17:52:03Z

Add a platform-independent hwspinlock framework. Hardware spinlock devices are needed, e.g., in order to access data that is shared between remote processors, that otherwise have no alternative mechanism to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion operations. Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen Cc: Hari Kanigeri Cc: Benoit Cousson Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Grant Likely Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Russell King Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren

[SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6

2011-01-14T16:12:29Z

LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the following feature set: High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD support. Advanced SCSI feature set: * Persistent Reservations (PRs) * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA) * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S) * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2) * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2) * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx) Multiprotocol target plugins Storage media independence: * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc. Standards compliance: * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720) * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig. [jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.] Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

NFC: Driver for NXP Semiconductors PN544 NFC chip.

2011-01-13T16:03:19Z

Creates a new "Near Field Communication" subsystem in drivers/nfc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication is useful ;) This is a driver for the pn544 NFC device. The driver transfers ETSI messages between the device and the user space. Signed-off-by: Matti J. Aaltonen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ARM: 6483/1: arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c

2010-11-26T10:51:04Z

factorise some generic infrastructure to assist looking up struct clks for the ARM & SH architecture. as the code is identical at 99% put the arch specific code for allocation as example in asm/clkdev.h Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Acked-by: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Russell King

MFGPT: move clocksource menu

2010-03-06T19:26:28Z

Move the CS5535 MFGPT hrtimer kconfig option to be with the other MFGPT options. This makes it easier to find and also removes it from the main "Device Drivers" menu, where it should not have been. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Andres Salomon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

firewire, ieee1394: update Kconfig help

2009-12-29T18:58:17Z

Update the Kconfig help texts of both stacks to encourage a general move from the older to the newer drivers. However, do not label ieee1394 as "Obsolete" yet, as the newer drivers have not been deployed as default stack in the majority of Linux distributions yet, and those who start doing so now may still want to install the old drivers as fallback for unforeseen issues. Since Linux 2.6.32, FireWire audio devices can be driven by the newer firewire driver stack too, hence remove an outdated comment about audio devices. Also remove comments about library versions since the 2nd generation of libraw1394 and libdc1394 is now in common use; details on library versions can be read at the wiki link from the help texts. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

cs5535: add a generic clock event MFGPT driver

2009-12-15T16:53:28Z

This is based on the old code in arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c, but is modular and not Geode-specific. There's no reason why the clock event device needs to be registered so early at boot; the clockevent code is perfectly capable of dynamic switching. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add linux/irq.h include] Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon Cc: Jordan Crouse Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Cc: Chris Ball Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Kconfig: Remove useless and sometimes wrong comments

2009-11-09T08:40:56Z

Additionally, some excessive newlines removed. Signed-off-by: Michael Roth Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

LinuxPPS: core support

2009-06-18T20:04:04Z

This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named "LinuxPPS". PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can use it to adjust system clock time. Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond synchronisation to UTC. To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch. It provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to get the time signal. The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing to these char devices. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Greg KH Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Roman Zippel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers: add support for the TI VLYNQ bus

2009-06-17T02:47:52Z

Add support for the TI VLYNQ high-speed, serial and packetized bus. This bus allows external devices to be connected to the System-on-Chip and appear in the main system memory just like any memory mapped peripheral. It is widely used in TI's networking and multimedia SoC, including the AR7 SoC. Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds